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- This post reflects an individual's attempt to improve performance in a short-term virtual stock market game. The user's current portfolio includes META, MSFT, NVDA, YUM, and YUMC. Given the short time horizon, the user is seeking advice on potentially higher-risk strategies to improve their ranking. This may reflect increased retail investor risk appetite, but the direct market impact is limited.

okay so my econ class started a competition where we’re each given $50,000(fake obviously) to invest in whatever we wanted. the top 15 get extra credit and i’m currently in 61/72 😀 i didn’t take it seriously at all but i lowk want to have a comeback so if anyone has any advice it would be much appreciated. the competition ends may 15 so i don’t have a lot of time😭 and also im not looking for good long term investments just things that will be good for a month
i can’t add pictures so ill try to explain what i have going on(yes i know it’s really bad please be kind):
overall returns: -4.91%
overall gains: -$2,457
META(10 shares)
MSFT(10 shares)
NVDA(20 shares)
YUM(32 shares)
YUMC(36 shares) please don’t ask why i invested in yum i literally don’t know
i don’t know if it matters but we started this beginning of february